Will Gordon be signing Neal's petition against the feral elite?

Leftie campaigner Neal Lawson of Compass - a former Gordon Brown adviser - has devised a petition aimed at getting David Cameron ‘to hold Britain’s feral elite to account and put the public interest first’.

He explains: ‘It’s now clear that whether it’s reckless bankers, some politicians and their expenses or media moguls profiting from people’s misery the willingness of a feral elite to place private interests over the public good has had a corrosive effect on the whole of society.’

I wish him well, but he doesn’t mention if Brown - a crony of many feral elite types - has signed.

Top story: Robert Peston

Another ‘scoop’ by the BBC’s business editor, Robert Peston, about the News International phone hacking scandal and the News of the World’s ex-editor, Andy Coulson, remaining on the Murdoch payroll months after departing and working for David Cameron in Opposition.

Coulson might yet be charged over the phone hacking and face years in prison. Why would anyone at NI want to make matters worse for him – and embarrass the Prime Minister?

Hollywood legend Doris Day, 87, now being portrayed by her doppelganger, actress Sally Hughes, in A Sentimental Journey at the Edinburgh Festival, has become the oldest performer to get airplay on BBC Radio 2, and on September 5 releases her first album for 17 years, My Heart.

Animal lover: Hollywood legend Doris Day

Day, now a deeply reclusive figure at the animal sanctuary she runs in Carmel, California, got typecast with a goody-goody image after Oscar Levant’s famous crack: ‘I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin.’

But her real character is more complex. Her 1953 hit, Secret Love, made her an icon for lesbians. She criticised Dame Elizabeth Taylor for her vulgar display.

‘When I see those boulders hanging from her neck I get nauseated ... All I can think of are how many dog shelters those diamonds could buy.’

Exhibition: Singer Annie Lennox

Once a runner-up in a Butlins talent competition, pop star Annie Lennox OBE, 56, is now so distinguished she was asked to design an exhibition of her favourite things for the Victoria & Albert Museum, opening on September 15.

Says Aberdonian Annie: ‘Over the years I’ve kept certain items of clothing, ticket stubs – just things that were meaningful to me, sentimental for me. I thought these things were fairly worthless, only of value to me. Now I can share my life with people.’

A grand gesture.

Northern Europeans subsidising EU neighbours in the South have long referred to it as ‘the olive zone’.

Dutch right-winger Geert Wilders, head of the Party For Freedom, calls them ‘the garlic countries’.